Word: trait
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...burp the child, as well as rock him or her to sleep, the goals of fostering good behavioral habits along with quality intellectual development would probably be lost somewhere between the baby crying and me trying to make dinner while finishing my homework. Good parenting is not an innate trait, and is even less so under stressful situations...
...asked to see Kennedy and talk about Berlin and was surprised when he agreed. I found him cool and cautious, but also patient, a trait we would see more of as he journeyed through the Cold War. "We could have sent tanks over and knocked the wall down," he said. "What then? They build another one back a hundred yards. We knock that down and then we go to war." He speculated that the wall would stay until the Soviet Empire tired of it. Some experts predicted it would stand 50 years or more...
...standard head requirement from as big as possible to merely large. Sadly, some judges have not modified their ideas of beauty and still award the prizes to the bulldogs with the biggest heads. And dogs that win prizes tend to be the most valuable to breeders, so the trait is continued through future generations. So who is to blame for perpetuating the raw deal handed out to man's best friend? Many believe that Britain's Kennel Club could do more to bring about health reforms. After all, this 19th century institution, with its royal patronage, has huge influence...
...opened what Neeleman pere claims was the country's first convenience store, on South Street in Salt Lake City. David certainly learned frugality: of the $3,000 his parents sent him during his year on a Mormon mission in Brazil, he saved $1,300. He has retained that trait. He gets around New York City by subway...
What's the state of aggression these days? The abrupt departure of Lucent's Deborah (Hurricane Debby) Hopkins touched off the usual fulminations: that aggressiveness, which is rewarded in men, is punished in women. No question, gender unfairness still operates. But more to the point, aggressiveness as a trait, in men or women, is less in vogue. Period. If you think of it as a stock, "its value has been diluted," says Patrick Wright, chairman of the human-resource-studies department at Cornell...